Before / if coming here it would be useful if a Brit had an understanding of basic Portuguese history particularly the Scramble for Africa. If reading up on the subject we recommend the following recent 1990 text as a means of getting a grasp of an important period for Portugal. So, why not download this and take it to your Portuguese tutor ? It will mean a great deal to the Portuguese tutor to realise that a British citizen wants to know more about this part of their history – before arriving.

If wanting to know more yourself your software should allow you to separate it into 3 parts and then google translate it in 3 sessions. Suggest to the Portuguese tutor this text becomes the 'course background reading' for all his / her other British students learning the language and about the country.

euro-scepticism expressed in nationalism and appealing to racists and xenophobes.

It is indicative that any mention of the McCanns brings out 'knee jerk' reactions from certain locals that connect directly to the 1890 - 1990 British Ultimatum.

Brits hunt for Teixeira Ultimatum Ingles 1990 or copy this into your browser and download the pdf - http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&ved=0CEMQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fanalisesocial.ics.ul.pt%2Fdocumentos%2F1223027734K4zTZ2wh1Lu94TC4.pdf&ei=qbPOUsz_C8my0AWs8oGYBQ&usg=AFQjCNFdoWO3uAXFCr9xLDWlpwMx-oH2XQ&bvm=bv.59026428,d.d2k

Note in it how the British / English became a description for thieves, cheats, bad people. Road names were altered. Businesses declared they would not buy British. British awards and medals were returned to Queen Vic. (Not the Eastenders pub wither !) National anthem told Portuguese to attack the British. etc etc
Sound familiar ?

And even some street names that have a British or England reference are destroyed or covered by others. In Lisbon, for example, the people change the sign English Lane for Thieves Lane and the Lane for Ships (going) to England for Lane for the Devils Charge 101.

The domain of language itself does not escape the patriotic climate that stir the national conscience . Suppress up English words lexicon
Portuguese daily - club , for example. As also often with mordant irony, move words, with reference to England and the
English , other phonetically similar in Portuguese , but the sense profoundly negative - a ' pound ', for example, was a ' thief ' one beef , one ' rogue ' 104 . They even create yourself some neologisms from radical 'English' with a strongly pejorative connotation - inglesada , Anglicize or simply English, wanting to qualify, not the nationality of the individual, but his moral character . There are rare times that the news media « A inglesada '( theft ) , the' Prison of a
English '( prison of a thief ) or' Arrested for Anglicize » 105 .
The proper teaching of English is challenged and faced the hypoth - abolish the thesis in Portuguese schools . The Government does not give much , but the fact is that , this year, students were exempted from examination Language
English by decree published in the Official Sheet 106 .

Cadaval 95 .
The King Carlos -highest figure in the country , ' he resigned commendation the English Order of the Bath , who had given him when he was Prince real and told Queen Victoria that rejected the Order of the Garter , which had given him and that he should be invested ' 93 . This affirms the royalist press. That is not , however, the view of the press - republican cane , always ready to spot the figure of the king , accusing him of "Allied
Natural England 'and' accomplice of outrage . " The Century asserts that such news is not true and that D. Carlos ' would have done just notice the ino - portunidade at this juncture to be invested in the Order of Jarrei - folio » 94 .
Either way , other personalities take the same attitude.
The Duke of Palmeia , historic leader of the Portuguese liberalism rejects
British decorations that had since the Crimean War and decides give a year of income from your home to the Great Subscription Nacio - nal , which is accompanied by the Earl and Duke of Porto Covo
Cadaval 95 .

Any number of commercial houses cut relations with Britain.
We may consider alternative measures for the Portuguese trade and declares himself (in a) 'Trade war to England' 68.
There are rare establishments commercial (not) bearing the inscription: 'We do not be buy (from) or sell (to) the English. »69

All Portuguese are taught this in their school days and some of the most rabid are from the ex-south African Portuguese colonies.…...

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